Year of the Priest Begins Friday

ncr ^ | June 14, 2009 | Tim Drake

[Petronski]

I sure wish you had designated this thread “Catholic Caucus.”

[NYer]

Prayers for Priests

Let your light so shine before men that, seeing your good works, they may glorify your Father in Heaven.
-- Matthew 5:16

Icon of the Priesthood (Monsignor Anthony La Femina)
Monsignor Anthony LaFemina, who created the icon of the Priesthood, tells us that the Diocese of Charleston has copies of the icon.
For information, write or call the Charleston chancery office:
Andrea Crawford, Administrative Assistant,
119 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29402.
Phone: (843) 853-2130

Year for Priests - June 19, 2009-2010

[Tax-chick]

Cool.

[strider44]

Gotta let the priests marry. I would think that would improve recruitung about 1000%. Female priests too. Don’t know what they’re waiting for.

[Desdemona]

Gotta let the priests marry. I would think that would improve recruitung about 1000%. Female priests too. Don’t know what they’re waiting for.

Sacred Tradition to be revoked?

There are married priests in the eastern rites, just not the Latin. And females - no, we have a different, but no less important, place. This is Sacred Tradition, what has been passed down from Christ, through His Apostles and Apostolic Succession.

Actually, in places, like here, where the seminary is good and orthodox and they do things as Tradition handed it down, we're ordaining plenty.

[tioga]

Thinking in human/worldly ways will not promote God’s plan one iota.

[Tax-chick]

Sigh. What do I do to attract these types?

[strider44]

Times change my friend. Sorry you think my opinion is BS. My father entered the seminary at Boston College in the the 60’s. He was discouraged by the overwhelming amount of homosexuals he encountered and thank god for me made his choice to leave.

I’m not bashing the church, I just don’t see the harm in ordaining women and more married men. Explain to me how it “harms” the church. Don’t just say it’s tradition and can’t be changed. Slavery was tradition for a long time. Women not being able to vote was a tradition for a long time. Polygamy, etc etc etc.

Question: If the church allowed more married men and women to be ordained, would this encourage more people to join the Catholic church or cause people to leave?

IMHO I think it’s the former.

[Salvation]

You seem to have some weird ideas about Catholic priests. Are you a Catholic?

Celibacy will survive; in fact it is flourishing. And there won’t be any woman priests either. Those who did false ordinations or those women who were ordained have been excommunicated as far as I know.

[Salvation]

Me too!

[Salvation]

Year of the Priest Begins Friday
U.S. bishops launch website for Year for Priests

[Salvation]

 

Jesus, High Priest

 About the Icon

[Petronski]

I’m not bashing the church...

Noooooooo, not at all.

[Ransomed]

There is no such thing as “women priests”, just like there is no such thing as “men priestesses”. The theological arguments aside, female clergy in the Catholic Church would be priestesses, just like the men are priests. A woman who calls herself “a woman priest” does so for wacky feminist reasons as far as I can figure, because it really is just as weird as a man calling himself a priestess. Also, the word “priestess” has bad connotations of various pagan religions in the western mind, and these women are worried about folks associating them with that, which is pretty wimpy in my opinion if you truly think women can be clergy in the Church.

Liberalism has hurt the Church more than not letting married men become priests in the latin rite, or not having priestesses. Can you point me to one woman who wants to call herself a “woman priest” in the Church who isn’t a wacky lib on issues such as gay marriage and abortion? Theology aside, allowing priestesses would only compound the problems of the Church by making it more liberal because there would be more liberal clergy.

Freegards

[hocndoc]

I’m convinced that - at least in the Baptist and (silent women, no instruments) Church of Christ that the men drive any woman who attempts to follow the Holy Ghost’s lead in prophecy and teaching.

On the other hand, because of my “raising,” I’m still very uncomfortable with any woman who calls herself a preacher.

[Ransomed]

“I’m convinced that - at least in the Baptist and (silent women, no instruments) Church of Christ that the men drive any woman who attempts to follow the Holy Ghost’s lead in prophecy and teaching.”

I’m not sure what you mean here. Did you mean to say “drive away any woman...”?

Well, I know in my church nothing would get done without the women. And women sure do teach, although not as clergy, but in rel.ed classes and such. Sometimes that’s a good thing and sometimes not I reckon.

All I know is that every Catholic woman who wants to be clergy in the Catholic Church or that thinks women clergy should be allowed is a lib it seems like. I think it is different for non-Catholics who think priestesses should be allowed, I reckon they might see it as simple justice without realizing what kind of wackos want to be “women priests”.

Freegards

[strider44]

Yes I’m Catholic. I see no harm in questioning some of the churches policies. I’m not banging down doors and protesting, just stating my opinion.

[strider44]

How have I bashed the church? Is it not a fact that the Catholic church has a problem with homosexual priests? I just stated my opinion as to how the church could try some new things. I conveyed a true story of how someone in many family was turned off the church because of the strong presence of gays in the seminary. Yes, this is an uncomfortable truth. The church remains a powerful force for good, but you’re kidding yourself if you think these problems don’t exist.